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Surgeon sues to overturn a North Carolina law that blocks him from offering cheaper MRIs

This surgeon wants to offer cheap MRIs. A state law is getting in his way.

Dr. Gajendra Singh is suing to overturn North Carolina’s “certificate of need” law.

By Dylan Scott | Jul 31, 2018, 8:30am EDT

Dr. Gajendra Singh walked out of his local hospital’s outpatient department last year, having been told an ultrasound for some vague abdominal pain he was feeling would cost $1,200 or so, and decided enough was enough. If he was balking at the price of a routine medical scan, what must people who weren’t well-paid medical professionals be thinking?

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